tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-83935865898306710812025-09-13T02:51:01.991-04:00Optimist: someone who figures that taking a step backward after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it's a cha-cha. ~Robert BraultAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17413516871161242441noreply@blogger.comBlogger260125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8393586589830671081.post-5430038261084523452015-05-20T11:31:00.001-04:002015-05-20T12:34:27.928-04:00

StompClapClapClapStompStompClap!What's more exhilarating than echoes in the hallway?After a long day of M-STEP-ing, G kicks up his heels to the rhythm of his singing sibs at their High School Spring Concert......in the hallway with 40 feet + 2 sets of blessed soundproofed doors between proud families and his Happy Feet. Anxious for another day of standardized state testing, G was a bundle of

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G's obsessed with campfires. We have them several times a week from spring till fall. I've gotten talented at finding dry wood; we even have campfires in the rain. I have to watch G constantly, for safety. Thus, I've made a nice little firepit area in the packed dirt that used to be under a pool in the backyard. A generous neighbor recently gifted us with a beautiful chiminea that they no longer

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Monday Blues? Alter your filter. Don your rosy specs, see(k) a fresh purple-spective. Purplicious!

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ROCKIN' G sings his heart out to synthesized creations at the Imagination Station Science Museum in Toledo, OH."Can't Stop" infamous final line rings true:This life is more than just aread-through.Live LOUD. Love LOUDER. Lyrics/Music: Can't Stop, Red Hot Chili Peppers, RHCPMichael Balzary, FleaWise words to love, live, sing. https://rockhall.com/inductees/red-hot-chili-peppers

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G's winning bedtime ritual: steamy loud hour-long shower with sensory foam and soap. I load up on various scented shaving cream, shampoo, soap at my darling dollar store - best $2/week ever! G sings, describes, scripts, stims, giggles, SHARES while he smears and draws. He draws his favorite characters, names, people, places. I roam the general area to do daily stuff or laundry while he gabs away.

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Power tools = great motivator! Peeled G away from a screen

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Happy World Autism Awareness Day! Celebrating my miracle bio-baby today! You work so hard, your abilities are taking off, SuperStar!

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Our awesome family dental office was stellar with G at his teeth cleaning appointment. Though G doesn't have the huge fear of dentists that many ASD spectrum kiddos do, I worried about his anxiety and sensory issues. No worries...The clinician talked softly, explained everything ahead of time and again as she worked on him. She introduced the tools, explained them, gave him jobs of holding

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I was dealt a smooth ACE skipping around social media today... Here's how a social media scan typically goes: 90% 》scroll 5% ×check/like/comment/scrap 3% >>share w/friend/social media/self 2% >>>Jump around site, intrigued Sound about right? I clicked an article about anxiety on Twitter, being highly relevant (eek!). I instantly fell into the author's personal raw admission and

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Morning silliness sends G off to school in perky spirits. Crabby, uncooperative, slow? Just add laughs to spark a happy note. He asked for a bowl of cereal... :)

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Sibs rock + G Challenge Winner! #13 is dedicated to my teens, because when they were young, they'd say being Autism Sibling brings "bad luck" at times. Nowadays, they roll with the best ASD teams I know. I'd love to deliver all the solutions, yet all I can do is offer positivity. My 15 year old wanted to see a movie with his new girlfriend over mid-winter break. Big sis and I took G to see

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Because he wanted to see the gizmo that made the robot blink on his lunchbox. The best part is G's patch job. Did he think Mom wouldn't notice? :) Online shopping for an overpriced lunchbox in March...

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Good read on common questions adoptive parents get asked and how they hurt: http://www.parents.com/parenting/better-parenting/what-not-say-adoptive-parents/?socsrc=pmmtw I find it flabbergasting how many strangers or distant acquaintances ask intrusive/rude questions about adoption. What I've gotten most often is: Quizzical stare at my fair complexion and back to my bronzed beauties, "Are

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Say Cheese Snow Day 2015, G's idea of a super snow day pose.  Hot cocoa and bath followed. :)

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Mr. BIGSTUFF: Who do you think you are? ASD can be frustrating. Tiny issues get blown into cyclones of distress. At times, everything is BIGSTUFF. My sweet kiddo tries so hard; a tender loving heart. Infinitely heartbreaking to watch anxiety color his days. New specs. Mid-winter break. G's ready for a fresh outlook. Let's focus on the smallstuff. Better yet, don't sweat any "stuff"Focus on

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Put your socks on! Put your socks on! Put your socks on! It's cold outside! Put your socks on! Put your socks on! Put your socks on! It's cold inside! Put your socks on! Put your socks on! Put your socks on! Shower time: Take off your socks! Take off your socks! Take off your socks! Take off your socks! Um...really? He found a use for his socks.

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Oof! Got a laugh at my sanctimonious self last night. Feeling fine using my official lint safety tools to protect my family. Laundry flowing, getting things DONE after 2 extra snowdays filled the household with glee and wet snowgear. I tidy up, pick lint off my shirt - only to spy my shirt is backwards. For the past 16 hours. ASD PARENT FLYING FAIL! Ahh, those hasty mornings when my

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For hire: Bright quirky Aspie jokester prodigy and perky silly Mom team of comics for immediate hire, limited bookings. Late Night is our forte'. Call today. With G's idiosyncratic lens and my wacky creative slant, G and I make an odd yet symbiotic stand-up team. At least we crack ourselves up. ;) G makes up puns, jokes, witticisms constantly. Since he was low verbal in his tot/preschool

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Joyful morning "welcome to bus stop!" chat with a new neighbor, I attempted to look casual in my acronym maelstrom. Through our frosty car windows, across G - in full Michigan snow gear, plus foot deep backpack - shihtzu Cookie scratching to jump out... Eeeeeeeeeeee! Verbal squeak phase. ASD ADHD oral sensory, check. Carb Crave CSI Catastrophe, location of Swedish Fish stash comprimised.

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Leaving a friend's home today, G stood looking out the door, fully geared from ankles up while we searched high and low for his socks which he inevitably always peels off. We finally gave up the hunt and told him to put his boots on without socks, which he also does 50% time in his haste. "Nah, I'm fine!" G was out the door in a flash. Minus socks. Minus boots. Running/jumping into the Michigan

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Not. Just. Another Manic Panic Monday. Transition to reality. Sigh. Groan. Screech! Most weeks, school routine/schedule gets off to a rocky start for our ASD kiddos. G frets about Monday all day Sunday, often Saturday. G had a wonderful start and a perfect transition this Monday. I'm learning: plenty of sleep, prep* and enough time to dance, sing and laugh. G loves to mimic Pitbull's "Fireball"

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Dear Santa, I would like a puppy named Cookie. And that's it. Love, G December 2013 Santa Mama delivered. ;) What a difference our first pet has made! "Cookie Dough" brings us together through laughter, snuggles and play. G taught her the joys of jacuzzi baths and long showers.  Now whenever any 5 of us in the fam turns on the tub, she comes scratching her way in within seconds. She adores

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Told G about this study that shows broccoli can help his worries (ASD symptoms). "Actually, that's awesome because broccoli actually happens to be in my top 10 foods. Top 5, actually."  Can you see why some friends affectionately nicknamed G, "Actually"?Actively Pinteresting Broccoli recipes......actually. Feel free to share recipes! ;) http://questioning-answers.blogspot.com/2014/10/

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Flutter on, SuperStar! Happy Dance to a strike at disco bowling fundraiser.

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